Anderson v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OTIS, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State, Department of Public Safety, from an order of the district court declaring invalid and improper the commissioner’s revocation of the driver’s license' of a Minnesota resident based on Minn.Stat. § 171.17(7) (1980). That statute provides that the commissioner shall revoke the license of any driver upon receiving a record of the driver’s conviction of “an offense in another state which, if committed in this state, would be grounds for the revocation of the driver’s license." The commissioner relied on a Colorado conviction for “driving while ability…